Because Gao Zheng was facing Xu Jiang before the game, everyone's attention to this game was diverted a lot to this matter.

I don't pay much attention to the game itself.

This has also invisibly reduced the pressure on Chinese players.

However, in Indonesia, there is a different understanding - they were ecstatic when they heard that Gao Zheng and a reporter were against each other publicly and scolded the reporter at the press conference.

With the virtues of Chinese football, shouldn’t the Chinese Football Association fire Gao Zheng, who violated discipline?

After losing Gao Zheng, the Chinese team fell into chaos and the morale of the army was disintegrated, and they had no intention of playing when facing them.

Isn’t this a great opportunity for Indonesia to win the game?

However, when the two sides announced the starting list two hours before the game, Indonesia found that Gao Zheng was on the list.

The Chinese Football Association did not fire Gao Zheng?

AIA was surprised.

When Gao Zheng scored the first record for the Chinese team in the first fourteen minutes of the game, and instead of celebrating the goal, he ran to the middle circle with the football in his arms, the outcome of the game seemed to have lost its suspense.

At the end of the first half, Gao Zheng made a cross from the wing to help Wu Lei head the ball.

The Chinese team led Indonesia 2:0.

Gao Zheng's starter made the Chinese team fans very happy. Because this seems to mean that the matter outside the court will not affect the field - compared with the victory or defeat of the game, perhaps everyone is more concerned about this matter.

After the second half of the game, Gao Zheng scored no goal, but he gave two assists and completed a hat-trick to assist, helping the Chinese team defeat Indonesia 5-0 at home.

The goal difference was won by nine goals in Indonesia in two games, and it really made enough goal difference. In this way, when the final qualifying place in the group, if the goal difference is needed, the Chinese team will take a big advantage.

In fact, when facing the weakest team in the group, any team will require you to win while getting as many goals as possible.

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After playing against Indonesia this time, Gao Zheng did not rush back to Italy without stopping because there was still a national team game.

He will continue to prepare for the Asian Cup qualifiers in Xi'an with his national teammates, and his next opponent is Saudi Arabia, the strongest team in this group.

The result of this game may be directly related to whether the Chinese team qualifies or not.

While the Chinese team defeated Indonesia at home, Saudi Arabia also defeated Iraq 2-1 at home.

The situation in this group is as follows: Saudi Arabia won four games and accumulated 12 points, ranking first. The Chinese team won three games and lost nine points, ranking second, Iraq won three points, ranking third, Indonesia won four games, gained zero points, ranking last.

Saudi Arabia has already obtained a quota for group qualifying in advance. The situation of the Chinese team is very good. As long as the remaining two games are not large, they can basically qualify from this group. If Iraq wants to qualify as the second in the group, it must expect the Chinese team to lose most of the remaining two rounds of group matches. At the same time, they must win most of the goals themselves, so that they have hope to squeeze out the Chinese team with the advantage of goal difference with the same score.

But it is not easy to do this.

The Chinese team now has nine goals, while Iraq loses three goals, with a twelve goal difference between the two sides.

Even if the Chinese team loses to Saudi Arabia at home, they can still qualify as the second in the group as long as they tie with Iraq in the last game.

Not to mention that the Chinese team may not be able to lose to Saudi Arabia at home. As long as they score one more point, they will get a quota for the group qualifying in advance - Iraq can only compete for the only best-scoring third place in the group.

So the next game between the Chinese team against Saudi Arabia is crucial, and you can qualify as long as you tie it!

Slowly, just tie the team and you can qualify?

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The saying "You can qualify by tied" is almost a curse for Chinese football, so many elderly Chinese fans are in a hurry when they hear this, fearing that something will happen again.

Although, in theory, for the two teams, China and Saudi Arabia, shaking hands and making peace is the most favorable result. Both sides do not hurt the harmony or have to hurt their muscles and bones, and they can qualify together. But no one can ensure that the game will follow this idea.

Not to mention that China and Saudi Arabia have some hatred in football.

The Chinese team has reached the Asian Cup final twice in history, but has never won a championship. One of them has reached the final but lost the championship. Everyone must be impressed by it, that is, in 2004, he lost to the Japanese team in the final at his doorstep. However, this is the second time.

The opponent when he lost the Asian Cup championship for the first time was Saudi Arabia. It was in 1984. The Chinese team was strong and reached the finals, but lost 0:2 to Saudi Arabia in the finals. Saudi Arabia stepped on the body of the Chinese team and won the first Asian Cup championship in their own history, which also opened the prelude to Saudi Arabia's football dominance in Asia. They later won the Asian Cup three times. Before the Japanese team won the Asian Cup four times in 2011, they were one of the countries with the most championships in this event - the other two countries that won the Asian Cup three times were Japan and Iran.

The Chinese team has not yet been involved in the Asian Cup.

It is normal to lose to a team with better performance and stronger strength in the game, and it is not considered a grudge.

Then the scene in the 1982 World Cup qualifiers is the real "deep hatred".

The head coach of the Chinese team at that time was Su Yongshun, and the players included Chi Shangbin, Li Fusheng, Rong Zhixing, Gu Guangming, Zuo Shusheng, Shen Xiangfu... They are all famous figures in Chinese football. Some people say that this is the most powerful Chinese team in history.

The Chinese team was assigned to a group with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and New Zealand to play home and away games. The top two in the group were qualified to play in Spain for the World Cup.

The Chinese team drew 0:0 in the first two rounds and lost to New Zealand 0:1. The situation was not good, but the Chinese team then returned to their original state and defeated Kuwait 3:0. You should know that Kuwait just won the championship in the 1980 Asian Cup. It is strong and in the limelight - against Saudi Arabia, the Chinese team won 4:2, 2:0 at home and away doubles, winning three consecutive victories.

In the last game, the Chinese team lost to Kuwait and ended all the games first.

At that time, the Chinese team, who had insufficient experience, thought it was a foregone conclusion and there was almost no accident. So after the game against Kuwait, the team was disbanded, and the players went home one after another to prepare for the New Year.

There is a reason for them to be so arrogant. At that time, the Chinese team led their competitor New Zealand with points and goal difference. As long as New Zealand did not win five goals away from Saudi Arabia in the last round of the game. You should know that Saudi Arabia could draw 2:2 at home in New Zealand at that time, and it was unreasonable that they would lose five goals after returning to home.

So the Chinese team felt that the situation was stable and could celebrate the first time in history to reach the World Cup finals just by waiting for the finals of the last round of the game.

Unexpectedly, Saudi Arabia, who returned to home, lost five goals at no more or less - they lost 0:5 to New Zealand.

In this way, the Chinese team and New Zealand have the same points and goal difference, ranking second behind Kuwait.

Both teams must play one extra game at the gravity field.

The Chinese team, who gathered hastily and had serious mental preparations, faced New Zealand in Singapore and was very uncomfortable with New Zealand's rough play style. In the end, they lost to New Zealand 1:2 and lost the right to qualify for the World Cup.

Saudi Arabia's special practice of harming others and unfavorable people has caused great harm to Chinese football.

Although thirty-one years have passed since this incident, there is no player in the Saudi Arabian team from that time. The Chinese team also participated in the World Cup in 2002.

The World Cup qualifiers and the Asian Cup qualifiers are also different.

But this does not mean that Chinese fans have forgotten this matter.

After all, Saudi Arabia and Iraq are both "brothers" of West Asian football. It is no surprise that the two teams will do anything to invite them for the glory of West Asian football.

Perhaps in order to help his West Asian brothers get the right to qualify for the Asian Cup, Saudi Arabia will do its best to defeat the Chinese team?

Therefore, we cannot wishfully think that Saudi Arabia will give up the Chinese team after it gets the Asian Cup quota in advance.

Saudi Arabian football has a tradition of letting go, but they will never let go to East Asian teams.
Chapter completed!